Citation

Chen Y, Wang L, Zhao J. J. Health Psychol. 2019; ePub(ePub): ePub.

Affiliation

Shandong Normal University, China.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1359105319888278

PMID

31749384

Abstract

Using two waves of data, this study aimed to identify the peer relationship profiles of 1295 rural Chinese adolescents based on a person-centered approach and to examine the interactions among these profiles, left-behind status, and gender in predicting subsequent subjective well-being. Latent profile analyses identified four profiles: a socially competent profile, a socially accepted profile, an isolated profile, and a rejected profile. These profiles were linked to left-behind status (i.e. both-parent migration, father-only migration, mother-only migration, and non-parent migration) and gender. Moreover, left-behind status moderated the longitudinal relations between the peer relationship profiles and subjective well-being for boys and girls.

Language: en

Keywords

latent profile analysis; left-behind adolescents; longitudinal study; peer relationships; subjective well-being